..Subsites did not differ significantly according to tobacco smoking, but differed according to alcohol consumption, with a significantly higher increased risk for hypopharyngeal than for glottic and supraglottic cancers...

..Given time trends in cancer mortality, the gap in the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between gender and between European populations will probably decrease in the future...

Measuring social inequalities in cause-specific mortality in France: comparison between linked and unlinked approaches

..More specifically, it compares bias and precision related to the use of occupational class declared at the last census (linked data) to the one declared at the time of death on the death certificate (unlinked data)...

Educational inequalities in tuberculosis mortality in sixteen European populations

..Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe...

Socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol related cancer mortality among men: to what extent do they differ between Western European populations?

..This study suggests that alcohol use substantially influences socioeconomic inequalities in male cancer mortality in France, Spain and Switzerland but not in the Nordic countries and nor in Belgium...

Prevalence of educational inequalities in obesity between 1970 and 2003 in France

..The aim of this study was to compare inequalities in mortality (all causes and by cause) by occupational group and educational level between men and women living in France in the 1990s...

Socioeconomic inequalities in cause specific mortality among older people in France

Gwenn MenvielleInserm U1018, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, Villejuif, FranceBMC Public Health 10:260. 2010

..The aim of this paper is to investigate educational inequalities in mortality by gender, age and causes of death in France, with a special emphasis on people aged 75 years and more...

Socioeconomic inequalities in premature mortality in France: have they widened in recent decades?

Gwenn MenvielleThe National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The NetherlandsInt J Cancer 126:1928-35. 2010

..Our study revealed that the impact of occupational exposures on socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence, rarely studied until now, exists while of modest magnitude...

The contribution of risk factors to the higher incidence of invasive and in situ breast cancers in women with higher levels of education in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition

..Inequalities in incidence were more pronounced for in situ breast cancer, and those inequalities remained after adjustment for all known risk factors (RII = 1.61, 95% CI: 1.07, 2.41), especially among nulliparous women...

..This was observed both among never- and ever-married women. The greater risk of breast cancer mortality among women with a higher level of education was a persistent and generalised phenomenon in Europe in the 1990s...

Social inequalities in cancer incidence and cancer survival: Lessons from Danish studies